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The union led a 23-day nurses' strike in the winter of 2003, one of Pennsylvania's longest health care walkouts. [5] In April 2010 the union led a month-long strike at Temple University Hospital defeating many hospital demands, including one banning nurses from making public critiques of management policies related to patient care.
From 2004 through 2017, acute healthcare facilities have reported more than 3 million events; and from 2009 through 2017, nursing homes have reported more than 259,000 events. [ 1 ] The Authority is charged to take steps to reduce and eliminate such events through the identification of problems evident in the collected data and recommendation ...
Nursing home residents' rights are the legal and moral rights of the residents of a nursing home. [1] Legislation exists in various jurisdictions to protect such rights. An early example of a statute protecting such rights is Florida statute 400.022, enacted in 1980, and commonly known as the Residents' Rights Act.
The agency anticipates states will need to perform more than 90,000 nursing home complaint surveys in 2025, representing a 13% increase from 2022. "This investment will strengthen health, quality ...
Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and whether they provide mostly assisted living , or nursing care and emergency medical care .
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In Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v.Talevski, 599 U.S. 166 (2023), the United States Supreme Court held that the provisions of the Nursing Home Reform Act at issue unambiguously created rights enforceable under Section 1983 of the Ku Klux Klan Act (codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1983), and private enforcement under §1983 is compatible with the Nursing Home Reform Act’s remedial ...